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73, Jack K3KT x-K4SAC

We contesters from several countries around the world want to submit the scores we achieve in CQ Contests to our Club or Groups but find that our intention collapses with the 275 km radius rule. This rule was first established in the early stages of this world wide competitions, but it only took into account the situation of Contest Club or Groups based on the US.
There are countries specially outside the USA and Europe where the territory is vast and the ham population is really low. Our Club/Group members believe that a change is necessary, especially considering that the wording for that change is minimal.
We really hope this rule is revised one and for good to meet the current situation which certainly is not the same as when the rule was written.
Participation in this competitions is increasing all over the world and such little (yet very important) change will be happily received and appreciated by the world wide community.
We kindly ask the contest organizers to review this rule to meet the needs of Clubs and Groups around the world.

Sincerely,

The undersigned.

If you would like to sign the petition you can go here http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/275km/

73, Jack K3KT

It starts this weekend, March 26th 2011 @0000GMT and goes through March 27th 2011 2359GMT.

For a complete losting of the rules you can go to http://www.cqwpx.com/rules.htm

For an online database of searchable scores from past WPX’s you can go to http://www.cqwpx.com/score_db.htm

Have fun and good contesting!

73, Jack K3KT(x-K4SAC)

Rules can be found here at http://www.ncjweb.com/naqprules.php

73, Jack K3KT (ex-K4SAC)

for the rules visit http://www.ncccsprint.com/rules.html

73, Jack K3KT (ex-K4SAC)

In a very close competition, Vladimir Askenov RW1AC and Alexey Mikhailov RA1AIP using the call R32F won a very narrow victory over Team Estonia, R33A operated by ES5TV/ES2RR in the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championship.

In a demonstration of how close the competition was, Team Estonia garnered 4,084,889 points, 99.675% of the winning Russian score. The R32F team won with a total score of 4,098,162.

Even though R33A came in 2nd place overall they did win the award for most SSB contacts and multipliers.

Operating as R33M, Dan Craig N6MJ and Chris Hurlbut KL9A came in 3rd place with a total score of 3,942,904. Dan and Chris managed to make 3,549 contacts and lost no multipliers during log checking.  The competition was so close, had Dan and Chris made just 16 more mults, they would have won overall.

For fourth place S50A/S57AW, they had too many log errors and ended up losing 8.5% of their QSO’s – 323 in all, dropping them from second to fourth.

In fifth place, K5ZD/W2SC had the same problem as N6MJ/KL9A – not enough multipliers.

Final Scores of WRTC 2010 Teams

1 – R32F   RW1AC/RA1AIP 4,098,162
2 – R33A   ES5TV/ES2RR 4,084,889
3 – R33M   N6MJ/KL9A 3,942,904
4 – R39D   S50A/S57AW 3,907,540
5 – R34P   K5ZD/W2SC 3,889,908
6 – R32K   RV3BA/RA3CO 3,776,544
7 – R32R   LY9A/LY6A 3,615,024
8 – R31X   UA3DPX/UA4FER 3,594,820
9 – R37M   G4PIQ/G4BUO 3,558,636
10 – R36C   LY9Y/LY7Z 3,502,044

By all accounts, the competition was a success and fair.

You can read more at Radio-sport.net

(credit: Radio-sport.net)

73, Jack K4SAC

If you need a telnet connection for your logging software, you can use k4sac.brescia.edu port 7300

Please respect the system.  A user manual is located http://wiki.dxcluster.org/index.php/DXSpider_User_Manual

Abusers are banned.

73, Jack K4SAC

The team  (DJ5IW, DJ7EO,DK1II,DL1MGB,DL3DXX,DL5CW,DL5LYM,DL5XL, DL6FBL, DL8LAS, DL8O, and SP5XVY) are scheduled to arrive in New Zealand on November 14, 2010 and be on the air by November 19th.

They plan to have 7 stations online, and will be operating CW, SSB, and RTTY.

They will be traveling to the Kermadec Isles aboard the MV Claymore II.  

For more information, visit their website.

To donate to the dxpedition and help offset some of the costs, please click here. 

ARRL Field Day is not a fully adjudicated contest, which explains much of its popularity.  It is a time where many aspects of Amateur Radio come together to highlight our many roles. While some will treat it as a contest, most groups use the opportunity to practice their emergency response capabilities.  It is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate Amateur Radio to local elected community leaders, key individuals with the organizations that Amateur Radio might serve in an emergency, as well as the general public. For many clubs, ARRL Field Day is one of the highlights of their annual calendar.

To learn a little bit about the history of Field Day, you can check out an old post of mine …click here

73, Jack K4SAC

Credit:ARRL

Comments must be filed by July 15th, 2010. reply comments must be filed by July 30th, 2010.

The 60 meter band is from 5060-5450khz. There are 5 channels allocated on a secondary basis to ham radio

5332 kHz, 5348 kHz, 5368 kHz, 5373 kHz and 5405 kHz.

The NPRM is seeking comment on adding an allocation at 5358.5 and dropping the allocation at 5368khz.

Also the FCC is proposing to add 3 new emissions  (CW)150HA1A, (PSK31) 60H0J2B, and (PACTOR-III) 2K80J2D and increase power output limits to 100 watts instead of the current 50 watts.

For more information read the NPRM here